XAMLPad is a Windows SDK that serves as a visual editor for XAML code. It offers some basic text-editing commands, a visual tree for viewing the property values of content, and an auto parse and refresh mode.

A few .NET programmers have opted to create their own free XAML writing tools. Others have written programs that convert various file formats popular with graphic designers into XAML code. And there are some commercial products for XAML development as well. If there are any tools, or products, missing form this list, let us know and we will gladly add them.

MyXAML (Marc Clifton)This open-source tool lets developers bring XAML into .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0 and ASP.NET applications. It is able to support third-party controls, and security is offered through encryption and digital signing.

XamlHack (Sheva's TechSpace)This XAML authoring tool includes a text editor based on the open source SharpDeveloper, property and resource explorers (the latter of which assists in the reverse engineering of BAML code), and what the author describes as a "hilarious error warning message."

*** The next three tools are built for two specific tasks, creating workflows and submitting data via RSS feeds, which can be done using XAML.

Bloghorn: A Blog Reader Built in XAML (Joe Marini)This application demonstrates the ability to connect XAML to data sources (in this case, XML feeds), bind UI elements to that data and have those elements respond to and display changes in that back-end data.

Templates for Windows Workflow XAML activation projects (Matt Milner)This PluralSight blogger, frustrated that Windows Workflow Foundation forces developers to compile XAML into the .NET assembly, has created some downloadable project templates that create pure XAML workflows that are copied into the build directory.

WFPad: Viewing/Editing Workflows in XML (Mark Schmidt)This download, in essence, is a XOMLPad for Windows Workflow Foundation (XOML being the Extensible Object Markup Language). "You can use the designer and hit the down arrow for synchronization to instantly view the XOML for that workflow," Schmidt writes.

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